Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Certein bodies… become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing at whatever cost must be attained.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.